305 - Subagents explained - What they are, when (not) to spawn them

About this episode

The episode explains subagents in AI-assisted development, clarifying terminology and discussing their benefits.

Subagents are becoming a core primitive for serious AI-assisted development. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury disambiguate "agent" terminology, unpack plan mode vs subagents, and explain how parallel, scoped workers improve research quality without polluting the main thread. Full shownotes at https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/305

People in this episode

Hosts: Kaushik Gopal, Iury Souza

Topics covered

• AI development
• subagents
• agent terminology
• parallel workers
• research quality

Keywords

• subagents
• AI
• development
• parallel workers
• plan mode

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